Dr. Ehsan Behzadfar

Associate Professor

OfficeHEI 03A

Phone416-979-5000 ext. 552628

Areas of Expertise With the decline of natural resources, sustainability is a must for all materials design and engineering activities, including polymeric packages. Our motive is to foster greener and more responsible materials design and processing practices while introducing advanced functionalities to end products. We are interested in understanding the structure-process-property relationship for materials in polymers and bio-composite materials through fundamental approaches to modern physics.

behzadfar@torontomu.ca

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1069-8193

Biography

Dr. Behzadfar joined The Creative School at Toronto Met in 2020. Dr. Behzadfar is a member of TMU's Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, with an appointment in the Chemical Engineering and Environmental Applied Science and Management programs.

Dr. Behzadfar's research focuses on combining experimentation with analytical and semi-analytical modeling to construct relationships between the structure-process properties of complex polymeric materials. Dr. Behzadfar leads a diverse team of researchers and is the director of the Sustainable Polymers Research Lab (SPRL).

Education

Visiting Scholar, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota (UMN), 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), 2014-2015
Ph.D., Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), 2014
M.Sc., Polymer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnique), 2008
B.Sc., Polymer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnique), 2006

Selected Courses

GCM 826 - Plastics and Packaging
GCM 746 - Sustainability in Print and Packaging
GCM 375 - Project Management

Areas of Academic Interest

Sustainable Design and Processing of Materials, Rheology of Complex Fluids, Structure-Process-Property of Polymers; Sustainable Polymer Packaging; Bio-polymers, and Bio-composite material

Spotlight

With the decline of natural resources, sustainability is a must for all materials design and engineering activities, including polymeric packages. Our motive is to foster the greener and more responsible materials design and processing practices while introducing advanced functionalities to end products. We are interested in understanding the structure-process-property relationship for materials in polymers and bio-composite materials through fundamental approaches to modern physics.

Selected Publications & Patents

Please visit Ehsan's Google Scholar webpage by clicking here (external link, opens in new window) .

Professional Membership & Activities

Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)
Society of Plastic Engineering (SPE)
Society of Rheology (SOR)
International Association of Packaging Research Institutes (IAPRI)
Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers (CSChE)
Canadian Society of Rheology (CSR)

Media Coverage

Open Positions

Our group is constantly looking for passionate and high-caliber candidates for undergraduate research assistantship, graduate studies (in Chemical Engineering & Environmental Applied Science and Management), and postdoctoral fellowship. Please send your resume and transcripts to Dr. Behzadfar. Qualified candidates will be notified upon the availability of positions.

Toronto Metropolitan University is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from underrepresented groups, racialized persons/persons of color, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQIA persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.